Cardiff University

First Class Honors - BSc. Psychology

Cardiff, UK

2014 - 2018

Project: An Evaluation of Spatial Representations of Order and the Efficacy of Online Studies

SPRINt Research Assistant

School of Psychology, Cardiff

Cardiff, UK

June 2017 - July 2017

• Evaluated multiple publication bias correction methods via R-based simulations.
• Collaborated with other researchers through GitHub and Slack.

Research Assistant

School of Psychology, Cardiff

Cardiff, UK

2016

• Worked with Professor Mark Johansen to explore the relationship between paranormal beliefs and confirmation bias.
• Designed and implemented a testing methodology.

Final Year Project

School of Psychology, Cardiff

Cardiff, UK

2018

• Designed an online and lab-based version of a cognitive psychology experiment testing the relationship between actual and represented differences between items in a list.
• Extended the functionality of the developing PsychoJS software to run the experiment online.
• Analysed the difference in responses between the online and lab versions of the study as a secondary research topic.

Data Analyst

Guernsey Financial Services Commission

Guernsey, CI

2019 - Current

• Recreated and automated the generation of various data reports using RMarkdown and pagedown to produce interactive HTML and PDF versions.
• Created a Shiny-based UI for users to interact with the report generator.
• Spearheaded an effort to better utilise the available data for inferential statistical analysis, including clustering and regression analyses.
• Further developed and delivered R training materials (teacheR and opeRate)

Graduate Data Analyst

ELEXON

London, UK

2018 - 2019

• Performance Assurance Review team
  • 6 months
  • Implemented a new risk simulation, utilising a Monte-Carlo methodology in R to better estimate the financial cost associated with specific risks.
• Market Analysis team
  • Automated and updated market reports, allowing them to be automatically published to the ELEXON website with custom HTML widgets to allow for greater user interaction.
  • Developed an R package to facilitate the extraction of energy-related data from the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service API provided by ELEXON called BMRSr.
• First developed materials to teach R to beginners that would eventually become the teacheR and opeRate books.

teacheR

A book aimed at beginners to the R programming language. Hosted at https://teacher.arawles.co.uk.

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opeRate

An advanced book focusing on applying R skills to data analysis projects. Hosted at https://operate.arawles.co.uk.

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BMRSr

An R package that provides functions to better access the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service API provided by ELEXON. This API allows access to a large repository of historical and realtime energy-related data. Documentation hosted at https:///bmrsr.arawles.co.uk.

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faviconR

An R package providing a set of lightweight wrapper functions to the RealFaviconGenerator.net API, used to generate favicons.

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